On Skiing

Furniture Is Stupid
Well, not all furniture. Just some furniture. I was crazy enough to forward MK a listing I saw while perusing our local classifieds online last week for an auction. It was some law firm or something and all their office equipment was for sale. We went and looked at the stuff which was mostly junk, but decided if MK could get a desk for super cheap it’d be kinda cool. It was heavy-duty stuff. There were two identical desks and MK let the first one go. He got the second one. Cool. Then we disassembled it, slowly. After a trip to Home Depot and out for coffee, we took a load home. Yes, in our car. And this is a big desk. The rest was

Only Number Two Will Be Fun
Not the kind of long weekend most people like. #122 Five Things We’ll Be Doing While You’re Watching Football  Emptying our storage unit.  Eating Bar.B.Q. Loading a UHaul (Budget, actually) truck.  Driving from Austin to Utah. Unloading the truck.

The Bed
So as I mentioned yesterday, sort of, MK and I are out shopping, aka I’m shopping and MK is reading reviews on his phone. With the best of intentions. We ended up at Ikea. Which I’m not putting in all caps because then I’d be screaming a store at you that I’m not all that into. But the internet said they had great mattresses. So there we were. And there was a decent bed. But only if you spent another 300$ on the padded cover. So I guess really there was a good cover. But the reviewers on the internet said a different bed was better. A weird space ice cream kind. A memory molds to you kind. It was hard, at the store, to accurately try to assess j

Review This
If you read this website and aren’t a chicken, answer my question in the comments: How often do you look to the internet for reviews? Whether it’s for restaurants, hairdressers, movies, skis or I don’t even know what else, how often do you read opinions? MK doesn’t really makes decisions without this type of review. It’s how we got our new bed (post about that tomorrow). MK reads yelp like some people read the headlines. And he takes it all with ZERO grains of salt. Let me clarify my beef: Back in the old days, sure, normal people might take the time to write up a thing. Probably only if they really really liked or hate

Going Cross-Eyed
So far, most people have gotten up, fed their family, dressed, gone to work, come back again, and been productive around the house. Got the mail, made dinner, talked on the phone. Surfed the net. You get the idea. I, on the other hand, have been staring at this for 10 hours. The only thing I’ve decided is that neither of them work, and we’re going to have to up th